The plant life of the Cretaceous was quite different to ... Image courtesy of Max Pixel (CC0) When the Cretaceous Period and Mesozoic Era ended 66 million years ago, the Palaeogene Period and the ...

Catalogue of the Mesozoic Plants in the British Museum (Natural History). The Cretaceous Flora. Part ii., Lower Greensand (Aptian) Plants of Britain. By Dr. Marie C. Stopes. Pp. xxxvi + 360 ...

During this period, oceans formed as land shifted and broke out of one big supercontinent into smaller ones. 3 min read Continents were on the move in the Cretaceous, busy remodeling the shape and ...

Discover what the prehistoric world was like and how it changed between when dinosaurs first appeared and the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous Period. Non-bird dinosaurs ... in a time ...

The Mesozoic Era can be subdivided into three periods, namely the Triassic, the Jurassic, and the Cretaceous ... groups of animals and plants. During the first period of the Mesozoic Era (Triassic ...

So many extinction-level events happened in ancient times, it is a wonder anything survived. These the ones that killed the ...

Learn about the time period that took place 251 to 199 million years ago. 3 min read The start of the Triassic period (and the Mesozoic era ... with microscopic plants called phytoplankton ...

For many, it is dinosaurs, the fierce and powerful stars of the Mesozoic ... during the Cretaceous mass extinction (the fifth mass extinction) about 66 million years ago, a new era of “megafauna ...